Arabic (Emirati) Language Specialist

World Wide; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

World Wide is seeking a linguistics-focused evaluator to work with language models on Arabic grammar, syntax, morphology, semantics, phonetics, and pragmatics. You will verify factual accuracy, document failure modes, and suggest improvements to prompts and evaluation metrics.

Candidates should demonstrate clear, metacognitive reasoning and be able to provide transparent work traces. Access to a secure computer and high-speed internet is required.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Arabic (Emirati) grammar, syntax, morphology, semantics, phonetics, and pragmatics.
• Ability to provide clear, metacognitive communication and "show your work".
• Access to a secure computer and high-speed internet.

Responsibilities

• Converse with language models on various language scenarios.
• Verify factual accuracy and logical soundness of model outputs.
• Capture reproducible error traces and document failure modes.
• Suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics.
• Challenge models on dialectal variation, formal vs colloquial language, and cultural context.

Skills

Arabic grammar

Linguistics

Show your work

Metacognitive communication

Education

Arabic language degree

Linguistics degree

Job description

Responsibilities

• Converse with language models on various language scenarios
• Verify factual accuracy and logical soundness of model outputs
• Capture reproducible error traces and document failure modes
• Suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics
• Challenge models on dialectal variation, formal vs colloquial language, and cultural context

Requirements

• Expertise in Arabic (Emirati) grammar, syntax, morphology, semantics, phonetics, and pragmatics
• Ability to provide clear, metacognitive communication and "show your work"
• Access to a secure computer and high-speed internet

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Arabic language, linguistics, or a closely related field
• Peer-reviewed publications in linguistics
• Professional translation experience
• Hands-on linguistic analysis projects

About the Company

We are working to power the next generation of AI by providing high-quality training data to evolve large-scale language models into powerful engines of linguistic discovery.